BELOW are some interesting
numbers that I've collected over the years. First let me explain
the notation used as some of the numbers are very large and to write them out
in full with all the noughts isn't practicable. Instead I'll use the scientific
notation to save space, so bear with me (it's not rocket science, trust me).
Take the number 1,000,000.

You can write this as106,
where the base number in my
example (10) is raised to the power of 6 or in layman's terms it's just 1 with
6 noughts on the end (1,000,000). Conversely, if there is a minus sign before
the power then the number is divided thus 10-6 = 10 divided
by 1000000 = 0.000001.

Right, now that's sorted
let's look at some of my favourite numbers...

6 is the first
perfect number

7 is interesting
in more ways than one. There are 7 deadly sins, 7 colours of the rainbow, 7
wonders of the World and 7 days in a week. And you cannot fold a dry piece of
paper in half more than 7 times - try it! It is also the number of times light
will travel around the world in one second.

22 isthe
maximum number of pieces that you can cut a pancake with 6 slices of the knife
- try it

46 In Psalm 46,
the 46th word is "shake". Then count back the 46th word from the end
and find "spear" Shakespeare!